Collage . Wood and cardboard on panel. Signed and dated in the lower right. 90 x 59 cm. . [AW].

• An icon of postwar modernism: With her monochromatic and monumental wooden assemblages, Louise Nevelson shaped the movements of “Junk Art” and “Geometric Abstraction.”
• 1943: “Exhibition by 31 Women” at Peggy Guggenheim’s “Art of This Century” gallery, alongside Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Dorothea Tanning, and others.
• In 1962, Nevelson exhibited at the American Pavilion of the 31st Venice Biennale.
• The artist’s works are held in renowned museums worldwide, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Tate Modern, London; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
LITERATURE: Thomas von Salis (ed.), Prinzip Collage. Von Arp bis West, Salzburg 2022, pp. 114f. (illustrated in color on p. 115).

Louise Nevelson. Sculpture and Collages, Wildenstein & Co., New York, April 30-May 29, 1981

Pace Gallery, New York. Private collection, New York. Private collection, London. Private collection, Austria (acquired from the above)

In very good condition. With traces from the production. Not unframed for cataloging.